Invests in the innovation and capacity-building of cutting-edge research infrastructure for fundamental biological science including human capital, technologies, institutes and centers and mid- to large-scale facilities.

Supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities and ecosystems.

Supports research aimed at improving understanding of organisms as integrated units of biological organization.

Supports research on the fundamental properties of living systems at the atomic, molecular, subcellular and cellular scales.

Supports multidisciplinary research opportunities and networking activities that arise from advances in disciplinary biological research.